# Phi-3.5-mini vs Soofi S 30B-A3B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Phi-3.5-mini and Soofi S 30B-A3B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/phi-3-5-mini-vs-soofi-s-30b-a3b
- Last updated: October 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 5
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Soofi S 30B-A3B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Phi-3.5-mini only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Soofi S 30B-A3B leads overall 54 to 51.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is GPQA in Knowledge, with scores of 30.4% and 43.4%.
- Soofi S 30B-A3B also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Phi-3.5-mini | Soofi S 30B-A3B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Microsoft | Soofi Project |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 128K | 1M |
| Overall Score | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 8 | 8 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Phi-3.5-mini public-lane score: Coming soon
- Soofi S 30B-A3B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Phi-3.5-mini | Soofi S 30B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HumanEval | 62.8% | 73.8% | Soofi S 30B-A3B |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Phi-3.5-mini public-lane score: Coming soon
- Soofi S 30B-A3B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Phi-3.5-mini | Soofi S 30B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BBH | 69% | 78.8% | Soofi S 30B-A3B |
| DROP | Coming soon | 66.5% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Phi-3.5-mini public-lane score: Coming soon
- Soofi S 30B-A3B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Phi-3.5-mini | Soofi S 30B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU | 69% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 47.4% | 51.4% | Soofi S 30B-A3B |
| GPQA | 30.4% | 43.4% | Soofi S 30B-A3B |
| MMMLU | 55.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 43.4% | Coming soon |
| AGIEval | Coming soon | 66.9% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Phi-3.5-mini public-lane score: Coming soon
- Soofi S 30B-A3B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Phi-3.5-mini | Soofi S 30B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MGSM | 47.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Phi-3.5-mini public-lane score: Coming soon
- Soofi S 30B-A3B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Phi-3.5-mini | Soofi S 30B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GSM8K | 86.2% | 86.1% | Phi-3.5-mini |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Phi-3.5-mini or Soofi S 30B-A3B?

Soofi S 30B-A3B is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### How many benchmarks does Phi-3.5-mini cover on BenchLM?

Phi-3.5-mini currently has 8 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Soofi S 30B-A3B cover on BenchLM?

Soofi S 30B-A3B currently has 8 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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